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From: asper@time.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
Subject: Re: Wanted:Head & shoulder image & speech data
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In article <p9214305.718367164@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> p9214305@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Robert Pascale) writes:
>luosu@waves.su.OZ.AU (Luo Su Huai) writes:
>
>>Hello,all,
>>I am doing some work on synthesizing human face image through speech for my 
>>Ph.D thesis. Now I urgently need the sample data,both in image and in speech.
>>The data should be several minutes of head and shoulder image and corresponding
>>speech. I need a male speaking some sentences( with the words known). And
>>both the digital image and speech data can be acccessed frame by frame(prefer 
>>20ms/f).  Could anyone please offer me any information about how to get this?
>>Thanks very much in advance.
>
>
>There is a Macintosh program that does exactly this. Unfortunately, I can't 
>remember the name of it at the moment. It was designed to shop cut-away images
>of the human face to help people with speech disablilities. I will look for
>the details and post when I find it.
>

You may be thinking of an application called interFACE by BrightStar. It
allows you to synchronize a "talking head" with a digitized voice. It
was also loaded with bugs, so caveat emptor.
Good luck,
Alan


